| Joan (Bader) Vetter |

The Phonograph-Herald | March 26, 2025

Joan (Bader) Vetter, 94, died at her daughter’s home in California.

Joan was born at home in St. Libory to Henry and Helen (Bruns) Bader. She graduated from Zion Lutheran School at Worms and St. Paul High School, which included her teacher training. Joan taught in the district school four miles northeast of her parents’ home. She wore jodhpurs riding a horse to school to teach there in 1948 and 1949. Joan also taught one year at Zion Lutheran School in Worms. Her pupils loved her and remembered her for many years.

Joan met Eugene Vetter, her future husband, while attending Concordia Teachers College in Seward. They were married at Zion Lutheran Church at Worms in 1950.

Joan is survived by nine of her ten children: Dr. Mary (Dr. David Sauchyn), Susan (Dr. James) Clark, Dr. Alisen, Dr. James (Barbara), Dr. Christine (Ramesh Subrananian), Dr. John (Aileen), Dr. Sally (Victor Chen), Colonel Dr. David (Nodira), and Dr. Ann (Dr. John Dally); daughter-inlaw, Caroline Vetter; brother, Bill Bader of St. Libory; sisters, Carol Stephan of River Falls, Wisconsin and Betty Rasch of Denton, Texas; and sisters-inlaw, Andrea Bader of St. Libory and Marilyn Bader of St. Paul.

Those preceding her in death are her parents; husband; son, Gene Vetter; brothers, Henry, Harry, David, and Ted Bader; sisters, Lois Watt and June Tewes; brothers-in-law, Rev. Walter Rasch, Rev. Thomas Stephan, Everett Watt, and Wilbur Tewes.